| Michael Bevilacqua on Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:21:37 -0500 |
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On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 07:58:33PM -0500, W. Chris Shank wrote: > It still requires fully licensed windows. If you already owned a copy of a windows product that you might possibly already be dual-booting on a 1GHz or faster machine, wouldn't it be nice to get rid of the dual booting kludge? This depends a lot on the application vs the limitations of the emulator, but from my experiences, can be very valuable. > I suppose it could be useful in some special cases, but I'd rather try > to replace the windows programs with functionally equivalent Linux > programs. So far, I've seen it great for apps that prove to be unstable. When you hose your Win32 environment in VMWare or Win4Lin, restarting the computer is usually not a necessity. I've also found usage in situations where the corporate network you work on doesn't allow SMB browsing through Linux for control (whatever) reasons. This tends to give the warm-and-fuzzies to those power hungry brain-washed corporate admins. For seasoned Linux admin's replacing window apps with their GPL'd/GNU'd equivalent isn't a problem. Its the remaining percentage that usually have a tough time making the leap. I do agree with your point of view that it shouldn't be a crutch at all, and that making habits like this is sort of similar to using telnet out of habit where just because you can get away with using it behind a firewall, but then wanting to type `telnet remotehost` and getting yourself into trouble. -- Regards, Michael Bevilacqua ~ . . /V\ Michael@Bevilacqua.us // \\ /( )\ ^`~'^ Attachment:
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